Being a Grown Up!

I thought I was a grown up when I moved away to college... then again when I bought my first car! I thought when I went to Indiana on my mission I was pretty grown up. But yesterday I felt really really grown up... I went to IKEA after work and bought furniture! Nothing screams adult like owning your own furniture. Until now I have just been sleeping on my air mattress and keeping stuff on the ground. But on Sunday while I was in church I was thinking about how I have been doing since I got home from my mission... turns out I haven't been doing the best at receiving revelation during my scripture study. I have been reading, but thats just about it... reading. I was really missing all the knowledge I was gaining on my mission, so I had the idea that I needed to buy a desk to study at! So thats exactly what I did. And the best part of buying this desk from IKEA was that I got to put it together! It was so much fun!!! I documented it so I could show everyone just how cool I am!

Starfish

Yesterday I went to a New Employee Orientation. One of the directors told a story and it just really impacted me. I am going to try to do my best to retell the story. 

There was a little kid running around the beach like a crazy person. Someone noticed him and watched him closely. He realized that the kid was frantically picking up starfish on the beach and throwing them back into the ocean. He asked the kid what he was doing and the kid explained that once noon came around the sun would be hot and all the starfish would dry up and die. The man thinks about this a second and looks around him at all the starfish on the beach. "There are so many starfish, do you really think you could make a difference?" The kid looks up at him, picks up a starfish, and throws it into the ocean and says, "I made a difference to that one!"

You can apply that to anything in life, but the thing I love about this story is the idea that you can make a difference to someone. Even if it's only one person, you can make a difference. I loved being a missionary because that was my purpose in life. My purpose was to make a difference in people's lives. Even though I'm no longer a missionary, I can still find ways to make differences in peoples lives. I am excited for my job and for the people I get to be around now! Life is good!